Simply connected projective manifolds in characteristic p>0 have no nontrivial stratified bundles
Hélène Esnault and Vikram Mehta
| Number | 13 |
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| Author | Hélène Esnault |
| Year | 2009 |
We show that simply connected projective manifolds in characteristic p > 0 have no nontrivial stratified bundles. This gives a positive answer to a conjecture by D. Gieseker (1979). The proof uses Hrushovski’s theorem on periodic points.

